The "ambitious, darkly humorous" story of a
Nigerian soldier fighting in Burma during the second world war has won
Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde the £10,000 Caine prize for African writing.
Babatunde, who beat authors from Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe and
South Africa to win the prestigious award for a short story by an African
writer published in English, tells of the experiences of Colour Sergeant Bombay
in his winning piece Bombay's Republic. Chair of judges, the novelist and poet
Bernadine Evaristo, praised his "vivid" descriptions. "It is
ambitious, darkly humorous and in soaring, scorching prose exposes the
exploitative nature of the colonial project and the psychology of
independence," she said.
Congratulations, Rotimi.
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